12 I The Lovell Chronicle ] September 27, 2012
Angela (holding baby Brock) and Troy Butler are now operating Morrison
Accounting on Main Street in Lovell.
Butlers take over
Morrison Accounting
BY DAVID PECK
A longtime Lovell business on Main
Street has changed hands and brought a
family back home.
Lovell Main Street fixture Morrison
and Morrison Accounting, for years owned
by Ron Morrison and, for the last four
years operated by Ron Ferguson while Ron
and Beverly Morrison served a mission for
the LDS Church in Billings, has been pur-
chased by Troy and Angela Butler.
Troy Butler, who hails from West Val-
ley City, Utah, and Angela Hatch Butler,
who grew up between Lovell and Byron,
are now operating Morrison Accounting,
offering bookkeeping and tax and payroll
work from the office long located at 153
East Main.
Troy is the accountant, and Angela will
help her husband with data entry when she's
not caring for their seven-week-old baby,
Brock, who was born August 6. Ron Morri-
son is assisting with the transition and will
also help during tax season, Troy said.
Under Butler, Morrison Accounting
will offer mainly tax work, but he said he
is also looking to get more into bookkeep-
ing and payroll services, as well. He per-
formed payroll and bookkeeping duties for
electrical contractor Wasatch Electric, he
said, noting that he is very familiar with
construction industry accounting.
Troy is working to become a CPA,
needing 11 more college credit hours on top
of his bachelor's degree in accounting. He
hopes to achieve his goal within two years.
He is a certified tax preparer.
The son of Mike and Pam Butler, Troy
graduated from Hunter High School in
West Valley City in 2004, then served a
mission to Chicago for two years. After his
mission, he attended Salt Lake Communi-
ty College for two years, then the Univer-
sity of Utah for three years while working
fulltime for Wasatch Electric. He graduat-
ed in May of 2012 and finished up his work
with Wasatch in August.
Troy and Angela heard about the op-
portunity from Angela's mom, Janene,
about the time Troy graduated, and they
spoke with Ron Morrison in June, finalized
the purchase in July and opened the new
business August 15.
Angela, the daughter of Don and Ja-
nene Hatch, is a 2005 graduate of Rocky
Mountain High School, where she excelled
in volleyball and basketball and graduated
as valedictorian. She attended BYU-Ida-
ho in Rexburg, then moved on to the Uni-
versity of Utah, graduating in 2009 with a
Bachelor of Science in Communication Dis-
orders (speech therapy).
Angela and Troy had met in college and
were married in July of 2009.
Along with her degree, Angela trained
to become a certified speech language tech-
nician and worked in charter schools for
Intermountain Speech Pathology Ser-
vices, Inc. She worked with K-9 students
for three years under the supervision of a
speech therapist.
She would like to return to graduate
school someday to earn a master's degree
in speech therapy, but right now she said
her focus is on being a stay-at-home mom
and helping with the new business.
In purchasing Morrison Accounting,
Troy and Angela received Ron Morrison's
client list.
"That's been a good starting point," An-
gela said.
Troy said he is thrilled to be in
Wyoming.
"I always figured if there was a way to
get here we would do it," he said. "The op-
portunity came after I graduated and we
jumped on it. I love the small-town feeling.
We both like small towns."
"We like Salt Lake, but this is where
we want to be long term," said Angela, add-
ing, ''ou couldn't pick a better guy to buy
a business from than Ron Morrison. He's"
a great guy to work with, and he's helping
during the transition."
Morrison Accounting is open Monday
through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Police warn elderly residents
abouttelephone seams
BY PATTI CARPENTER
Lovell Police Chief Nick
Lewis issued a "heads up"
to elderly residents in the
community this week to be
on alert for calls from peo-
ple they don't know or peo-
ple posing as a relative who
ask them to send money out
of the country.
"These are typically
seams," said Lewis, who
notes that he has seen nu-
merous cases over the years
where local residents have
sent thousands of dollars
overseas because they were
convinced by a caller that it
would either help a relative
or they would get rich as a
result. One local resident
even sent $40,000.
Lewis points out that
senior citizens are most
likely to have a "nest egg,"
own their home and to have
excellent credit. All of these
factors make them par-
ticularly attractive to con
artists.
He also noted that con
artists know that the elder-
ly population in general is
polite and trusting. Typical-
ly they exploit these traits,
knowing that it is difficult
or impossible for these in-
dividuals to say "no" or just
hang up the telephone be-
cause their generation was
raised to believe it is rude to
hang up on a caller.
Lewis indicated that el-
derly people are less likely
to report a fraud because
they don't know who to re-
port it to, are too ashamed
at having been scammed or
don't know they have been
scammed. Elderly victims
may not report crimes, for
example, because they are
concerned that relatives
may think they no longer
have the mental capacity to
take care of their own finan-
cial affairs.
Lewis encourages any-
one who receives a call to
contact the department
so that the police have an
opportunity to warn oth-
ers about seams that are
prevalent.
Lewis said that con art-
ists count on the fact that
when an elderly victim does
report the crime, they often
make poor witnesses. Seam
artists know that often age
affects memory, and they
are counting on elderly vic-
tims to forget details when
they provide information to
investigators. In addition,
the victims' realization that
they have been swindled
may take weeks or months.
This extended time frame
makes it even more difficult
to remember details of the
seam.
Lewis said senior citi-
zens are more interested in
and susceptible to products
promising increased cogni-
tive function, virility, phys-
ical conditioning and anti-
cancer properties.
He also warns that tele-
marketing seams often in-
volve offers of free priz-
es, low-cost vitamins and
health care products and
inexpensive vacations that
may be attractive to the el-
derly who are often on fixed
incomes.
"Sadly, once the money
has been sent overseas it is
impossible to get it back,"
said Lewis. "And the prob-
lem is so big now that even
the Feds are having trouble
dealing with it."
Some of the seams are
so sophisticated that they
even know names of rela-
tives because they have
mined the information from
social network pages like
Facebook, said Lewis.
A list of the type of
seams the Lovell Police De-
partment has been made
aware of recently is avail-
able at the Lovell Police De-
partment and at the depart-
ment's booth at the health
fair this weekend.
Mason
of the
Year
Mike Verdetto of
Lovell recently
received an
award as Mason
of the Year for
the Northwest
Quadrant of
Wyoming following
a recommendation
at the summer
Grand Lodge of
Wyoming meeting.
Verdetto was
honored for his
work, enthusiasm
and dedication to
the organization.
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